Changes. Again.

awakening September

I dreamt summer heat

and green, then 


came this 

sudden morning 

silver-wet and 

stark:

a maddening chill

laughed lightly,

mocking my 

childlike embrace

of naked 

air. 

Poem ©2011 R. Burnett Baker 

Photo©2011 R. Burnett Baker 

Photo taken by R. Baker at the American Falls, Niagara Falls, New York, June 2011.